On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 02:43, Peter Boy wrote: > James Kaufman wrote: > > > I have two monitors and two video cards. One is Matrox G400. The > > other is an S3/Virge. I have run them as two separate monitors under > > Psyche and KDE, but haven't figured out how to do this using GNOME. > > The current version of Gnome doesn't support two (or more) independent > desktops as KDE does. So it's not possible in the moment. > > There is ongoing developement to support it and it is scheduled for one > of the next versions (if I remember correctly 2.2 end of this year). > > > Another piece of the puzzle is when I start in GNOME, my left > > monitor is perfectly fine. The right one is blank; however, I can > > move my mouse to the second monitor and see a cross hair. I just > > can't do anything with the second monitor. > > That's normal. XFree does recognice and handle both monitors, but Gnome > will not display a desktop on the second one. > > Peter
Here's a paste from an email from the gnome mailing list today, but I don't know if the issue above is really addressed or not: _+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+ GTK+-2.1.1 is now available for download at: ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.1/ This is a development release leading up to GTK+-2.2. The major change as compared to the stable GTK+-2.0.6 is support for multiple displays and multiple screens in GDK, although there are numerous minor changes as well. Since GTK+-2.1.0, changes include independently installable pixbuf loaders (librsvg now includes a SVG loader for GdkPixbuf), fixes for drag-and-drop between multiple screens, and some initial support for the RandR extension. Also this release fixes a problem with compilation using Xft version 1. ...
